Ties feom bottle necks



May 22, 1-923. 1 45'6,185

A: C. MEEKER Filed Jan. 6, 1923 Patented May 22, 1923.

ALLEN c. MEEKER, or MADRID, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, or ONE-HALF 'ro WEBSTER n.

GRIFFITH, or MADRID, new Yoax.

TOOL FOR REMOVING TIES FROM BOTTLE NECKS.

Application filed January 6,1923. Serial No. 611,113.

time, the consumers either push the ring down on the bottle neck to disengage it from the cover and then entirely remove the cover or merely cut away the top of the cover, using the contents of the milk bottle with the cover left in this insanitary condition.

lVhen the bottle is returned to the distribu-,

tor for cleaning, the ring and any remaining portions of the cover must first be removed before the bottle can be cleaned.

This entails considerable extra work on the.

part of the distributor and the object of this invention is to provide a tool which can be cheaply made and freely distributed to the consumers to facilitate removal of the cover by removal of the ring, so that while the bottle is in the household, it will be in a sanitary condition and when re-' turned to the distributor, will be free from the ring.

With these general objects in view, my invention consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and combination of parts as hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that it may be fully understood, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is an elevation of a milk bottle, showing the diflerent operating portions of the tool;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the tool.

The tool is bent from. a piece of wire to provide a return bend 2, one side of which is connected to the curved pointed member 3, the other side being connected to a crank arm 4 provided with a looped handle 5,. The curved portion 3 conforms substantially to the shape of the bottle neck to guide the tool to operative position. The effect of such curved portion is to prevent the point from puncturing the paper cap when the tool is being inserted.

In using my tool the pointed member is forced between the ring and the bottle neck, assuming the full line position 6, shown in Fig. 1. It is then rotated on a vertical axis through 90 degrees, to the intermediate dotted line position 7, the wire 8 of the bottle fitting in said return bend. The tool is now in cranking position and on being rotated on a horizontal axis in the plane of the ring towards the position 9, the slack 01 the wire will be taken up around the sides of the return bend and contracted to' the point where the wire will'break under the imposed strain. After the wirehas been severed, the paper cover,.which is left substantially intact, can be removed and then replaced after the milk is poured, thus keep, ing the neck of the bottle always in a sanitary condition. The loop of the handle 5 maybe flattened out at 11 so that it can also be used to remove crown seals trom bottles. The point dot the tool can also be used to remove paper milk bottle caps by inserting thepoint into the middle of the cap and vusing the tool as a lever to raise the cap from the customary position. The inner sides of the return bend may have knife edges 10 in which case the severing action would be not only by rupture but also by cutting.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced a device of the character. enumerated as desirable, and while]: have illustrated and describedthe preferred form of the invention,'it will be understood that I reserve the right to all changes properly falling within the spirit and scope of the appended'claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. A tool forremoving ties from bottle neckscomprising a member adapted to be interposed between the tie and the bottle neck and having a curved. portion conforming to the shape of the bottle neck for guiding the tool to operative position, the said member adapted to engage the tie to sever it when the tool is rotated.

2. A tool for removing ties from bottle necks comprising a member having a return bend adapted to be interposed between the tie andthe bottle neck, a pointed portion extending from one side of the bend for guiding the tool to operative position,

necks Comprising a meinber having an offset portion adapted to be interposed between the tie and the bottle neck, a pointed portion extending from one side of the offset portion for guiding the tool to operative position, and a handle for rotating the said member on an axis siibst'antiaily in the plane of the tie to sever the tie When it is in engagement with the offset portion.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ALLEN C. MEEKER; 

